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** Does chocolate make you clever? **
A study appears to suggest eating chocolate improves a nation's chances of winning Nobel Prizes. But does cocoa really hold the key to genius?
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Stories of resistance

Shades of grey

YOU have a decent job and work hard. You keep your nose clean, respect authority and have never joined a protest march. Suddenly you have the bad luck to face a cruel and seemingly impossible choice. Your superiors tell you to do something outrageous or unacceptable. Do you obey or, at grave personal cost, refuse? In "Beautiful Souls", a subtle and thoughtful book, Eyal Press, an American journalist, tells the stories of four very ordinary people who, in widely different times, places and circumstances, surprised themselves by saying "no".

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